All the Walls are Down at Seven Dwarfs Mine Train giving us our best view yet of the queue area, and finally revealing all the exterior track on the roller coaster. Sounds like a good excuse for our third update this April.
There was still quite a bit of finishing and touch up work going on. Among some painting and landscaping, Imagineers were tinkering with the new interactive queue elements and the ubiquitous on-ride photo was being installed while we were there. Cast members are telling guests it will open sometime next month. However, media have been invited for a ribbon cutting ceremony to be held on May 2nd. Everything is subject to change, of course.
There are a few elements around the track that have me worried. It looks like they’ve jury-rigged evacuation lighting around part of the track. They might have to make that more permanent before it can open to guests. But the good news is they have been testing the coaster with people, and even filmed a commercial recently.
Here’s some video taken of newly opened areas:
I hope they’re able to open it soon, it looks amazing. Head below the jump for a huge gallery of photos of the newly exposed areas.
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- Main queue entrance
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- Nice design work on the signs
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- The fastpass+ side of the queue
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- Stroller parking already full from Pooh :)
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- Yep, Snow White mountain is forest covered
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- A really low queue wall. That might need adjusting
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- Details make the magic on the Dwarfs Cottage
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- One covered area of the queue
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- This larger covered area houses interactive elements, and exit from the ‘vault’
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- Lots of pretty looking queue
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- The exit gate.
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- A new look at the lift
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- Exiting the mine and heading toward the lift
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- A wider view of the mountain
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- Interactive element instructions
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- Instructions for 2nd game
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- Imagineer and team working on interactive gem game
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- Sign for the vault
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- great detail work on the lift
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- Looks to be ride photo camera
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- Beautiful aging and moss added to mine scene
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- More track revealed
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- More new track revealed
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- Last minute painting
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- more painting needed here
There are so many amazing details elements, I could have added another 30 pictures, but I’ll save some for later. What are you looking forward to most about experiencing Seven Dwarfs Mine Train for the first time?